Walther Conference Seeks Papers on Walther and Sponsor Ads

Walther Conference Seeks Papers on Walther and Sponsor Ads
Christian News, Vol. 49, No. 34, September 5, 2011
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The Eighth National Free Conference on C. F. W. Walther will be held at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis MO, Werner Chapel, on Friday, Nov. 11-12. The theme for this year’s conference is, “Walther and the Bible: His 200th Birthday.”

The Walther Conference plans to publish a commemorative booklet in recognition of the 200th birthday of C. F. W. Walther. The theme of the papers should focus on Walther’s importance for the layman today.

Rev. Joel Baseley is serving as the editor of this publication. Clergy and other interested parties are being asked to submit papers and/or articles to be published by the Walther Conference in this commemorative booklet by email to Rev. Joel Baseley at j_baseley@hotmail.com All papers and articles must be submitted by September 30, 2011.

To help finance this memorial publication congregations and/or individuals are asked to purchase commemorative sponsorships. Each sponsorship will receive a complimentary copy of this booklet.

Sponsor is one line of text with the name of individual or organization begins at $10.00.
Business Card sized ads/dedication are 1/5 of one column using a 2 column format.
Name on sponsor list $10:00
Business card $25.00
1/4 page (3.25” x 5”) $100.00
1/2 page (7” x 5”) $200.00
Full page (7” x 10”) $300.00
Please send funds for ads to
Rev. Neil R. Schmidt
1709 Summergate Circle
St. Peter’s MO 63303
or e-mail fnp@hope—lutheran.org
Phone 636-447-5211 or Cell 636-627-9331
Checks should be made payable to Walther Conference with Commemorative Booklet in the memo line.
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Preliminary Schedule
Eighth National Free Conference on C. F. W. Walther
To attend the Eighth National Free Conference on C. F. W. Walther, send a registration fee of $30.00 and an additional $00.00 for the banquet to:
Rev. Neil R. Schmidt
1709 Summergate Circle
St. Peter’s MO 63303
or e-mail fnp@hope—lutheran.org
Phone 636-447-5211 or Cell 636-627-9331
Werner Auditorium [Old Chapel] - Concordia Seminary – 801 DeMun Ave. - St. Louis, MO 63105

FRIDAY –
NOVEMBER 11th, 2011
11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. - Registration at entrance of Werner Auditorium [Old Chapel]
11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Opening Devotions – Rev……………….
12:15 - 12:20 – Welcome - Prof.**************
12:20 - 12:25 p.m. – Announcements by Moderator Rev. Neil Schmidt
12:25 - 12:40 p.m. – Coffee Break

12:40 - 1:40 p.m. - Session #1 - Rev. Rolf Preus
“The Inspiration of Scripture, by Robert D. Preus: Is This Book Relevant to the Church Over Half a Century Later?”

1:40 - 3:00 p.m. – Session #2 - Eyal Rav-Noy
Who Really Wrote the Bible?

3:00 - 4:00 p.m. – Session #3 - Rev. Joel Baseley
How the Doctrine of Inspiration Answers the Objections and Inventions of Reason in the Writings and Publications of C.F.W. Walther.

4:00 - 5:00 p.m. – Session #4 – Attorney Paul Nelson
LCMS Polity As Presented to American Courts

5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. - Session #5 - Dr. David Kaufmann
Macroevolution: Science Falsely Called

6:00 - 7:30 p.m. – Banquet – provided by Concordia Seminary – cost (to be announced)
Texas Barbecue

7:30 - 8:45 p.m. - Banquet Speaker: Rev. Herman Otten
Walther: 200 Years after His Birth – WWWD What Would Walther Say and do Today?

SATURDAY – NOVEMBER 12th, 2011
9:00 - 9:15 a.m. – Opening Devotion – To Be Named

9:15 - 10:15 a.m. – Session #6 - Rev. Jack Cascione
“Patterns in the Text from Revelation to Genesis: Ignored by Uninspired Higher Critics and Exegetes”

10:15 - 11:45 a.m. – Session #7 - Panel Discussion
The Bible, a Tool for Evangelism with or without an Inspired Text?
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. – Announcements & Closing Devotions

PRESENTATION FORMAT SESSIONS 1-6
35-45 minutes for the speaker
10-20 minutes for questions from the floor
5-10 minutes intermission/coffee break
The Walther Conference is sponsored by Hope Lutheran Church, 10701 St. Cosmas Lane, St. Ann, MO 63074, and is directed by the Walther Conference Committee. Rev. Neil Schmidt will serve as the Conference Moderator.
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Rev. Joel Baseley, has served as a pastor in the LCMS for over twenty years and has pursued a regular discipline of translating and self-publishing German theological works, especially from the 19th century. Some of his projects include collection of daily devotional readings Luther, “Taegliche Andachten (1884),” published in 1996 under the title “Luther’s Family Devotions”. He translated and published “Luther’s Festival Sermons” (2005) which complements Klug’s “House Postils” and the Lenker’s “Sunday Sermons” of Luther. Since 2005 he has translated four C.F.W. Walther anthologies in their entirety; “Lutherische Brosamen (1876)”, “Casual -Predigten und -Reden (1889)”, “Festklaenge (1892)”, and “Ansprachen und Gebete (1888)”, and has published them also. Most recently (2010) he published his translation of the first year of C.F.W. Walther’s “Der Lutheraner (1844-45)” as well as his own work, “Holy Communion: Vanishing Mark of the Church”, diagnosing the fatal cancer of Evangelicalism that currently afflicts the LCMS, mainly by citations from the pages of Walther’s “Der Lutheraner” and the Lutheran Confessions. The current issue of his free, semi-weekly e-newsletter, which includes his newest translations from the second year of Der Lutheran, as well as all of the works mentioned above and more, are available on his website, www.mark vpublications.com. At this Walther Conference Pr. Baseley will share Walther’s thoughts on the topic “How the Doctrine of Inspiration Answers the Objections and Inventions of Reason in the Writings and Publications of C.F.W. Walther.” Basely has studied, translated, and published Walther’s works for the past 20 years. Baseley has gathered together Walther’s published writings on the doctrine of Inspiration.

Rev. Jack Cascione, author of “In Search of the Biblical Order” published in 1987, will speak about the inspiration of Scripture in relation to patterns in the Biblical text from Revelation to Genesis. For the past 150 years higher critics have either rejected or ignored the possibility of patterns in the Biblical text. Do they exist? What is the proof for their existence? How did they get there? The implications of patterns in the Biblical text mean: (1) we possess the original text, (2) the patterns are linguistic tools to identify correct manuscript readings, (3) the entire Bible is unified by Mosaic style, (4) the JEPD theory is a hoax, and (5) the Bible is not a collection of oral traditions. Patterns in the Biblical text show that no other human literature or so-called holy books on earth are written like the Bible. Cascione has an MFA and M Div., is a former Assistant Professor of Art at Southern Indiana State University, has served as a Lutheran pastor for 30 years, and is currently the pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church in St. Clair Shores, Michigan.

David A. Kaufmann, holds a Ph.D. in Human Ana-tomy from the University of Iowa. He is one of the few creation scientists to earn tenure and full professorship at a large, secular research university. He has done biomechanical research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland and exercise physiology research at the Wingate Institute, Netanya. Israel. In 1999, he taught “Philosophy of Science: Creation vs Evolution,” at Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Siberia and debated the top members of the Eastern Russian Academy of Sciences for eight weeks. He is a Professor of Applied Physiology (Retired) at the University of Florida in Gainesville and was Secretary of the Creation Research Society for 21 years. He will show how Macroevolution is not scientific and really is atheistic metaphysics, show how to refute evolutionary arguments and hopefully inspire some in the audience to be become Lutheran creation scientists. He will also demonstrate that theistic evolution is theo illogical, and creation is theo logical.

Attorney Paul D. Nelson, is an experienced trial litigator and appellate lawyer with emphasis on complex civil cases, including major class actions, insurance coverage, business disputes, mass tort, product liability, and catastrophic injury matters. Nelson graduated from Clark College with a B.A., cum laude 1971 and from the University of Oregon, School of Law with a J.D. 1974. Nelson is the Defense attorney in Lee vs. Bowles financed by the California-Nevada-Hawaii District Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod and filed by Attorney Sherri Strand, Legal Counsel to the LCMS Board of Directors. Nelson has deposed LCMS President Gerald Kieschnick, LCMS Secretary Dr. Raymond Hartwig, LCMS Executive Administrator of the Board of Directors Ronald Schultz, LCMS Designate from the Commission on Constitutional Matters Dr. Wilber Sohns, CNHD-LCMS District President Dr. Robert Newton and others. Nelson has gained valuable insight into LCMS Church Polity as it is presented to American Courts. Nelson’s grandfather served as a Norwegian Lutheran Pastor in Minnesota.

Herman Otten, has been the pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, New Haven, Missouri, since 1958 and the editor of Christian News since 1961. He is the editor of William Beck’s An American Translation of the Bible and the author and editor of more than a dozen books. Otten has spoken widely throughout the U.S. and in other countries. He has debated liberals and church officials who now generally refuse to face him. James Adams, religion editor of the St. Louis Post Dispatch wrote in his “Preus of Missouri” that “when historians assess power and influence in Missouri in the ‘60s, no man right or left will be more important than journalist Herman Otten.” James Burkee, chairman of the faculty of Concordia University, Wisconsin, wrote in his “Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod” published by ELCA’s Fortress Press in 2011: “Otten was the most significant figure in modern LCMS history.” The St. Louis Globe Democrat said: “Feared firebrand of The Lutheran Church.” “Tough in print, Otten is warm and friendly in person.” Christianity Today said in an article on Otten: “Tough in print, but likable enough in person.” Editor Bill Miller, a former president of the Missouri Press Association who has toured many nations on press tours, wrote in an editorial on Pastor Otten titled “A Man of courage, discipline,” that “Pastor Otten is the most disciplined person this writer has ever met.”

Rev. Rolf Preus, son and student of Dr. Robert D. Preus, has studied and taught on the Doctrine of Inspiration for more than 30 years in the ministry. Preus is a serious student of his father’s work, and is highly qualified to speak on his father’s historic book, that had a profound influence on Lutheran and Protestant churches in North America. Rev. Rolf D. Preus is a 1979 graduate of Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne and received his STM from the same institution in 1987. He has spoken at numerous conferences on a variety of theological topics and has taught classes in theology for Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne; Concordia University, Wisconsin; Ukrainian Lutheran Theological Seminary of St. Sophia in Ternopil’, Ukraine; and for the Luther Academy in Indonesia. Rev. Preus is pastor of First American Lutheran Church in Mayville, North Dakota; First Evanger Lutheran Church in Fertile, Minnesota; and Grace Lutheran Church in Crookston, Minnesota.

Eyal Rav-Noy, an Israeli born scholar, now living in Los Angeles, is the author of “Who Really Wrote the Bible.” Rav-Noy, who has been interviewed on national broadcasts, including the Michael Medved show, is the first Jewish author to show that patterns in the text of the Pentateuch must have been written by the same author. Rav-Noy’s book proves that the JEPD theory, which denies Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, is a fraud, and is therefore a response to Dr Richard Elliott Friedman’s book, “Who Wrote the Bible.” Rav-Noy is an ardent spokesman for the single authorship of the Five Books of Moses.